It evoked a feeling in her—of\n silence and freedom, of riding a bicycle on a dirt track cutting through\n fields in the absence of her parents, Nanaki, a fiercely sensitive young\n woman, is brought up by her grandparents in a quaint Chandigarh\n neighbourhood. She grows up to be an artist and a Professor in an art\n college. As Nanaki goes through the motions of an idyllic childhood and a\n difficult teenage love, her experiences play out against a haunting backdrop\n of Partition and her beeji’s turbulent personal history. Nanaki is brought\n face to face with the dark underbelly of contemporary Punjab when she takes\n up the cause of a consummate embroidery artist against a corrupt system while\n also being privy to the heart-breaking stories of two women in her immediate\n vicinity. Through it all, it is her Sufi bearings that sustain her.\n Meanwhile, over many motorcycle jaunts to the tiny hill-town of ka SA ul I,\n Nanaki finds love in himmat, an architect with his own share of personal\n tragedy and a scarred childhood. Meditative, rooted in location yet filtered\n through nostalgia, in the land of the lovers is a masterfully woven fable\n with interlocking tales that explore struggle, loss, longing and love with\n brilliant insight and luminous prose.